Gingrey pulling from Deal network for campaign hands

Gingrey pulling from Deal network for campaign hands

A senior political adviser to Rep. Phil Gingrey said Wednesday that the six-term congressman has retained a handful of key operatives and is expected to enter Georgia’s GOP Senate nomination contest “in the near future.”

“All indications are he’s going to be running for U.S. Senate,” Gingrey general consultant Chip Lake said by phone.

Lake said the organization was still “a work in progress,” but said that a pair of Republican firms had been retained to manage the would-be campaign’s digital, mail and paid advertising operations.

That delay, Lake said, is merely the product of family considerations. The congressman has four adult children and more than a dozen grandchildren whose varying schedules have complicated the timing of a formal announcement, “assuming he goes through with it,” he cautioned.